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Quote: Originally Posted by scotty321  This makes no sense. Why is Apple wasting resources on flyovers? Nobody -- and I mean nobody -- uses this feature of Maps. I don't think anybody even knows how to get into this...

Quote: Originally Posted by malax  I've always wondered this: does "R&D" (research and DEVELOPMENT) include all the software development costs? Or is it only the more abstract/skunkworks sorts of...

Quote: Originally Posted by Plagen  Apple spends more on R&D than Google's profit. No it doesn't! Google annual profit is over $12b i.e. more than Apple's annual R&D

Quote: Originally Posted by Rogifan  Ah, but don't [insert company names here] spend more R&D as a percent of revenue or whatever than Apple does? I mean that's what we hear every day from Wall Street. Google,...

Quote: Originally Posted by BestKeptSecret  Maybe a day late and a dollar short, but I just wanted to comment on this thread. As with every other place, there are uber-rich, rich, middle class and poor people in...

Quote: Originally Posted by KDarling    Sales are further apart, with Samsung over 33% share vs. Apple under 5%.     Samsung just dropped the Grand price in India to 19,500...

Quote: Originally Posted by pedromartins  Why 12 and not 8?   Please, let's not try to use samsung strategy. Make a 440 ppi screen (lie about the fact that it is oversaturated pentile screen (330ppi),...

Quote: Originally Posted by chabig  Playing catch up how? People understand that there is more to a quality photograph than megapixels. The megapixel race is over, just as the megahertz race is.   Most...

Quote: Originally Posted by e1618978  Manufacturing difficulties in Q1 will have put some pressure on margins, and pushed some sales out into Q2.  Quite soon after Q2 started the shipping delay on iMac and...

In China, India and many other countries most of Samsung's and other Android phone manufacturer's sales come from low end devices. They have plenty of models in $100-300 price range. Some barely even qualify as 'smartphones'.